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The letter was written on a dirty piece of ordinary paper of the cheapest kind. It had been provided by the tavern and there were figures scrawled on the back of it. There was evidently not space enough for his drunken verbosity and Mitya not only filled the margins but had written the last line right across the rest.
It becomes the enemy of extravagances of any kind; it shrinks from what are called scenes; it has no mercy on the mock-heroic, on pretence or egotism, on verbosity in language, or what is called prosiness in conversation.
We have but little sympathy or patience for those who treat her as a mere Rosy Melindi who are always fishing for pretty complements who are satisfied by the gossamer of Romance, and who can be allured by the verbosity of high-flown words, rich in language, but poor and barren in sentiment.
It may be mentioned as a proof of the great general interest attaching to the contest, that a Lunatic whom nobody employed or knew, went down to Verbosity with several thousand pounds in gold, determined to give the whole away which he actually did; and that all the publicans opened their houses for nothing. His principles were what they always had been.
Whatever the question be, or whatever the form of its discussion; address to the crown, election petition, expenditure of the public money, extension of the public suffrage, education, crime; in the whole house, in committee of the whole house, in select committee; in every parliamentary discussion of every subject, everywhere: the Honourable Member for Verbosity will most certainly be found.
A judicious mean may be adopted between the eccentric conciseness of Napoleon and the minute verbosity which laid down for experienced generals like Barclay, Kleist, and Wittgenstein precise directions for breaking into companies and reforming again in line of battle, a piece of nonsense all the more ridiculous because the execution of such an order in presence of the enemy is impracticable.
George's Channel by malignant treason on one side, and on the other by exuberant verbosity. It was a moment big with the fate of humanity and he strongly advised the constituencies to make him Prime Minister again. Then the country was plunged into the turmoil of a General Election. Every borough and shire which had not already secured candidates hastened to do so.
"He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate, as I may call it...He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." Love's Labor's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1. Is there not a goodly part of the wool-stapler's craft, as well as of the art of rhetoric, compressed into that one sentence by the hydraulic power of Shakespeare's genius?
Buckram nodding his head at the horse as he spoke, 'and 'ow that he'd given the matter o' two 'under'd or I'm not sure it weren't two 'under'd-and-fifty guineas for 'im, and 'Well, interrupted Mr. Waffles, tired of his verbosity, 'and what did they say about the horse? 'Why, continued Mr.
The Duke of Omnium had notified to Mr. Fothergill his wish that some arrangement should be made about the Chaldicotes mortgages, and Mr. Fothergill had understood what the duke meant as well as though his instructions had been written down with all a lawyer's verbosity. The duke's meaning was this, that Chaldicotes was to be swept up and garnered, and made part and parcel of the Gatherum property.
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